How smart clothing could help improve our health | Janani Bhaskar | TED Institute @tedinstitute
How smart clothing could help improve our health | Janani Bhaskar | TED Institute  @tedinstitute
Uploaded November 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
By designing "smart" clothing with durable technologies, we can better keep track of health and well-being, says clothing designer Janani Bhaskar. She shares how we can use screen-printing technology to attach biometric “smart stickers” to any piece of clothing -- and how they can track blood pressure, heart rate and other vital signs. "Why not transform clothing and make it a part of our digitized world?" she asks.

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